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powerful politicians and other leading personalities, authors, poets

and actors of various nationalities. Certainly, a bar-tender, who

serves «the world and his wife» in a faithful and modest manner,

acquires a lofty and well-balanced conception of life. He may

work in New York, San Francisco, Yokohama, Sydney, London,

Paris, Berlin or Rome, Society und the Bar will always be run on

similar lines and the bar-master will always enjoy the confidence

of his clients in his hard but happy employment.

In conclusion, I may say, — «Bar-men of the world, keep the flag

flying!» And if the world is no better and no worse, no wiser and

its troubles no smaller, bar remains bar, i. e. an establishment all

round the world that stands for happiness and freedom. If there

be war or peace, if the circumstances in which we live are for

tunate or not, if people do right or wrong—what does it all

matter in the end? "We must stick to our post, we must understand

them all, share their joys and troubles and think, with them, that

Time is the best medicine.

L«e Barkeeper international

Dash — voila le nom de la premiere goutte pour un Cocktail.

Polir les verres — voila le premier travail du futur barman.

Lhuile de citron repr^sente le dernier raffinement sublime pour_

donner au Cocktail I'arome, en le poudrant de I'huile de I'ecorce

pressee par les doigts.

Un Barkeeper vraiment international et perfectionne doit dis

poser du tact, d'une psychologic sure et d'un ton diplomatique.

C'est pourquoi il n'y a que tres peu de personnes aptes a exercer

cette profession. La premiere condition est I'education soignee,

la seconde un apprentissage complet du service d'hotel et du

restaurant. En outre sont indispensable la connaissance de plu-

sieurs langues et des diverses conceptions que le public a de la vie

ainsi qu'une indulgence fine. On devrait evidemment bien con-

naitre les lettres et etre superieur en science a la moyenne de sa

clientele. Au point de vue physique le barkeeper doit disposer

d'une bonne constitution, de forces; il sera sportif, aura un ca-

ractere bien determine, une grande faculte de concevoir vite.

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